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Many an Eastern dervish has, I think, got immortality upon less laziness and resignation than this temporary sojourner in Massachusetts. Mandeville, in his argumentative way, dissents from this entirely.
He was a pretty child, and she smiled at him as he lifted his serious brown eyes. "Jack likes to see what you are doing, but you mustn't sell him by mistake, Miss Norah," he said. "Is this your little boy?" she asked. "No, James Mandeville is a neighbor and very good friend of ours. Aren't you, Infinitesimal James?"
"They have been walking together several times, and James Mandeville always returns with a bag of what he calls finger ladies." Miss Sarah's voice interrupted presently. "I don't know when I have spent such an eventful hour. I must take my knitting cotton and go. I know now where to come when I have the blues."
THE FIRE-TENDER. It is not altogether the not minding their own business. Nobody does that. The usual explanation is, that people with one idea are tedious. But that is not all of it. For few persons have more than one idea, ministers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, manufacturers, merchants, they all think the world they live in is the central one. MANDEVILLE. And you might add authors.
I own, indeed, there may be more virtue in giving it immediately in charity, than in spending it in luxury; though there may be a pride in that too. Miss Seward asked, if this was not Mandeville's doctrine of 'private vices publick benefits. JOHNSON. 'The fallacy of that book is, that Mandeville defines neither vices nor benefits.
Mandeville was one of the old coffee-planter's descendants. Had fate been less vile, thought Flora, this house might have been his, and so hers in the happy event of his demise.
Smith wrote his travels in London nearly thirty years after, and it is difficult to say how much is the result of his own observation and how much he appropriated from preceding romances. The Cambrians may have been the Cossacks, but his description of their habits and also those of the "Crym-Tartars" belongs to the marvels of Mandeville and other wide-eyed travelers.
Its chief strength lay in the eastern counties and in London, where a few clergymen such as Calamy and Marshall formed a committee for its diffusion; while in Parliament it was represented by Lord Brooke, Lord Mandeville, and Lord Saye and Sele.
At the Christmas assembly Geoffrey de Mandeville secured from the king the reward of his latest shift of sides, in a new charter which increased a power already dangerous and made him an almost independent prince.
Mandeville, of Albany, turned his chair around with back to the audience and, facing them, attempted to stare them out of countenance. William H. Burleigh, secretary, read the annual report, which closed, "We hail the formation of the Woman's State Temperance Society as a valuable auxiliary." This precipitated the discussion. Rev.
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